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The Home Journal, Prices $2 00 Per Annum. In Adrance. EDWIN MARTIN, Editor to Proprietor. - -— TKU PAPE* U BIiS KYEBY WEES BY 05* TBOCSAKD YAMILtEB I* THE BUSY 8ECTI05 OP GEOBGli. THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 8. ; An exchange exclaims:—“Another epidemic of suicides.” Ob, no, friend. It's just one of the beaks of mean whis- fay* A whole week has passed without an attempt being made to kill, an emperor or king. Is civilization on the retro- grade? ” - Fobty-nine failures were reported in New York city in April, in which the total liabilities amo unted to $1,199’883, and the assets were estimated at $633,- 12L • i jggp 1 “Paddy from Cork” has been using his shelaley with considerable effect. A riot in that city last Saturday sent about forty people to the hospital with scalp wounds. A fbiend writes to ns that he is out of employment-, has failed in all bis un dertakings, and wants us to adrise him what to'do. Well, if he is really unfit for anything else, he had better start an agricultural P a P»* Wb learn that the editor of the Atlan ta Phonograph now takes np the Sparta Ishmadlite with a pair of tongs when he goes tb read it: . It is so red hot when it goes np in that direction. Coii. Styj&es has invited the Press Convention to visit Canton. Beware, Col! Ham and Gorman could eat out Cherokee county in ten minutes, and then icry for feesh sausage and eggs to conquer. "■ — >-'• ■*——•— A skksationaIi Americus firm adver tises “Two men isinshed to death in the rush at off* store.” The notice is founded on facit:—the two men had their pocket books hopelessly mutilated buyijagdamaged homespun. What the conntry really needs is a law to prohibit gormandizers -from 5,napkins the size of bedqtdlts r bosoms at hotel tables. They shot^t^e iaken'to a side-vt^ble -or. fed in tlte ! pig trough. ~' . The question of the boor, is, “Will 1 take water?”— Exchange. probably a small modicum, but the niembers will take liquor straight by a large naajority. After a trial of a week and a day tho Cox case went to the jury Tuesday even ing in Atlanta/ It attracted more in terest than, any criminal ease in Geor gia for many years. A shrewd Yankee tourist let some rowdy tioyd chase' him all over a Flori da steamboat the other day and bump his, bead against the door post. Think he’ll feel outraged? ' JSTo. He’ll go homeland get elected to Congress on aoooant of that affair in less than two year&^|g ( ^ t ; Lets have the next Press Convention at Charleston. Its the best point -to meet at in the vicinity of Georgia. We CMi board there at low rates by making special - arrangements, and there are jaaay : points of great interest,—the forts, phosphate mines, ete. What say you,'brethren? We’vr got great respect fpr onr wor- ihy school commissioner, Hon. G. J. On, hut we hope he will stop going about the State trying to get the grand jaries to recommend the Moffett liqnor law. He is mistaken about its practica bility. It-will heavily oppress the h on est.liqnor dealers and give the dishon est ones nearly all the business. Then the proposed law is too complex, and requires too maHy inspectors, spies and machines to half way enforce it. A disastrous nitro glycerine oxplosion occurred at the Grand Trunk Bail&ay depot at Stratford, Ontario, yesterday. The glycerine had been'shipped as powder for Vanderbilt, who was to have used it in making blastings in a tunnel at Detroit. Fifty oars were shattered to splinters, and a fragment of iron was driven through the window of a hotel » mile and a half distant, and the busi ness part of the town nearly a mile off,- anffered greatly. The shock was felt in all the neighboring towns, and the citi zens thought that it was an earthquake. The extent of the disaster < aunot be ful ly known for some time yet. The President of the Louisiana Con stitutional Convention, ; naw; ia session, m his opening address, qnoted from the original constitution of Hassachnsetts the declaration that -“The people of this commonwealth are not controllable by any other laws than those to which their constitutional representative body have grreai their consent,” and tho declara tion; <bf the original constitution of Hew £ork that‘‘That this convention, in the name and -by the authority-of the good people of this State, doth ordain, deter mine and . declare that no authority jthall,' ion any pretense whatever, be ex ercised oyer the people or members of this State, bat shall be derived from and granted by them,’’ and then said:— “These declarations have lost none of their deep significance. They teach ns bow to estimate the value of State inde*- pendence and state sovereignty as the strong fortress of political liberty, and at the same time the only sure guaran ty of a stable onion of our States,” GEORGIA GLEANINGS. —The Bainbridge at joins onr views on the pistol question, and with the Hawkinsville Dispatch, LaGrange Reporter, GainesxWla Argus, and other papers of the highest intelligence in the State, we do’nt feel entirely alone. r. W. Sparks was killed in Atlanta the other day by his son-in-law, a man by the name of Tye. They were both butchers,and fdl out about the renting of a batcher pen. Tye gave himself np,and claims that the homicide was justifia ble. —Progress is the watchword in Atlan ta, and Henry Ward Beecher will lec ture in that city on the 15th instant.— We believe that Atlanta has done honor to several meaner men than Beecher. However, this step reflects no credit on that city. —Mr. Wadley, President of tho Cen tral Railroad, has purchased the Mont gomery and Enfaula Railroad for the sum of $2,120,000, which gives the Cen tral a solid foothold on the Alabama freight business. —Coming plenty of fish easts its shad-ow before, as the United States fish commissioner has just pat 150,000 minnows in the Chattahoochee River at Columbus. —The United States government has left the Confederate graves oatride the hew brick cemetery wall at Anderson- ville. An association is proposed to en close and properly preserve the South ern graves there. It is a shame that it has not been done long ago. —Seme citizens of Wilcox county are trying to prevent the commissioners from building a new court house by writ of injunction. The Hawkinsville Dispatch informs us that Judge Pate de clined to hear the case, and referred it to Judge Simmons, of this circuit. —A turpentine distillery at No. 14 M. & B. B. B. was destroyed by fire the the other day. It was a case of spon taneous combustions, the cap of the still being removed too soon and the air be ing admitted, touched off the spirits. The loss is estimated at one thousand dollars. —We learn that nearly all of the town of Wadley, on the Central Railroad, was destroyed by fire on- Saturday last: The The fire originated in the kitchen of Mr. Isaac Henman, formerly of Cochran, and spread all over the town—sweeping everything in its path. We do not know the extent of the damage, bnt are in formed that the losses were pretty well covered by insurance. —Brother Harrison, of the Montezu ma Weekly, has a noble way of taking revenge. . When a contemporary won’t exchange with him lie just sends two dollars and subscribes for it. The Press Convention shonld investigate each reckless independence, —Two years ago, says the Central Georgia Weekly, fifty thousand joung Sknd were placed in the Ocmulgee Div er at Macon, and the fishermen ale catching them daily, although fliej are only half grown, and the stocking of the rivet is being prevented thereby. They kill the goose that lays the golden egg. All fishing with nets and seines shonld be prohibited for abont two years, and fish would be once again plentiful in onr waters. —The Macon Sunday Ledger has been merged into the Central Georgia Week ly, Mr. Williams-haying purchased ithe the former paper. The lattcr cofires to ■ns in an enlarged form and bids fur to become a very popular paper. —We seff from the LaGrange Report- er that Troup county has drawn four complete sets of jurors, ini anticipation of a solid month of legal gymnastics.— LaGrange onght to be a good place for lawyers to have a chance. —A negro tried to make Mr. John Benner commit suicide in Macon the other day, when John retaliated, and the negro came nearer the cold, cold grave than he expeoted. Neither were dangerously wonuded. —Col. E. E. Brown has rented his popular hotel to his nephew, and he will retire to his residence in Vineville, a suburb of Macon. —We learn that on Thursday, 17th ult.j Marshall Lester, a twelve-year-old son of kb. J. D. Lester, of Dooly coun ty, was fishing on the sheeting of his father’s mill, where some workmen were making some repairs, when a crowbar fell from the flooring of the mill above, striking the little fellow on the head and fracturing the skull. At last .ac counts-it was thought there was bnt lit tle chance for his life, or that if he shonld recover that the light of■ • reason lias departed forever.—Sumter Republi can. —The Masonic fraternity of Borne, Georgia, have just completed s hand some and commodious Masonic Temple, which will be dedicated on Thursday, May 22d» 1879, by Junes M. Mobley, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia. At the same time other ap propriate Masonic ceremonies will take place. All Masons are fraternally in vited to be present with their Borne brethren on that occasion. Arrange ments have been made with the differ ent railroads for reduced rates of fare. To young seek wanting to go West we recommend Mark Twain’s advice:— “If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful dilligence; bnt if yon are “no account,” go away from home, and then yon will have to work whether you want to or not. Thus you will become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nui sance to them—-if the people you go among do suffer by the operation.” A TIME TO REJOICE. Confirmed in their habits of thought and feeling, as well as in their method, of business, the planters of this gener ation seem destined to perpetual vexa tion in the present world. They find themselves between two disturbing causes, one of the other of which is al ways operative. When crops are good and seasons propitious they naturally feel hopefnl, and would certainly expe rience real happiness, bnt just at the time when “every prospect pleases” their darling crop declines in-price. High.crops and high prices are no more to be expected at the Fame time than that both ends of a see-saw will go. np simultaneously. Planters desire both however, and are essentially unhappy without them. The difficulty is obvi ously great, bnt being a matter of de fective philosophy rather than of unto ward circumstances, it is not necessari ly insurmountable. The planters may reform their habits, and learn a higher philosophy. This they may not choose to do, seeing that gratuitous advice is sometimes offensive to them, bnt the suggestion is a good one nevertheless. It is a fact of history that small crops return a greater aggregate of money than large crops, and inasmuch as money is the particular thing' desired the con- clnsion is clear that good prices are more important than -good crops. Both cannot be realized at once. No one therefore can be so obtuse as not to see that the time to rejoice is when the crops languish, and the rains are with held. Of course if a man’s desire is merely to lookupon luxuriant vegetation he is wise to enjoy the prospect of abun dant crops, but if his object is money let him he exceeding glad in the times of drouth. This philosophy is at the service of any who may wish to become wiser and happier. Mack Sims. A WORKING MAN. A great many people entertain the idea that editors have the easiest time of any class of mien in the world, and enjoy more privileges and pay less for them. Sind a friend to the writer once: “Why, yon editors don’t do anything but sit with your heels as high as your bead, a cigar in your months and an ex change in your hands a few hoars every day. If that isn’t taking things easy, I don’t know what is.” Hundreds are of the same way of thinking. Now we’ll give a case right herein the city, Mr. W. T. Christopher, the brilliant and popular editor of the Atlanta Sun day Phonograph, does more hard work than any newspaper man in Georgia. He works steadily on an average of fif teen hours out of every twenty-four. Ac every reader can see, there are hundreds of short, crisp, pungent, pithy para graphs in his journal, nearly every one of which is penned between the hours of seven and twelve at night. True, when not otherwise engaged, he is wri ting daring the day. He looks after his job department, sometimes going to the press and taking the part of a pressman; sets type when the paper gets behind, keeps his own books, solicits subscrip tions and advertisements, canvasses the towns near the city occasionally, and at tends to his correspondence. A man who has so much to do and so many things to think abont, has pre- cions little time to sit cross-legged and smoke cigars. An editor is compelled to do more work and get less pay for it than anybody else. If there is a young man connected with Georgia journalism who deserves success, that person is the brilliant, bold, f^xrless editor of the Atlanta Sunday Phonograph, His paper is very popular, and we are glad to know ho is raking in subscribers.—Awhta Correspondence Avgusta Sows, In China, where the opinm habit ra ins and destroys many men annually, the efforts of the government to abol ish or diminish the use of opium have recently been more energetic than ever. All these efforts have been in vain* as were those of many previous years. The Pekin Government have at last de termined to take the final step in the bnsiness, and an edict has been issued, which goes into effect next year, making the use or sale of opiujn punishment by death. It is hard to say how the edict will be met by the ten million opium, victims of the Celestial Empire, or what proportion of them, will come to this conntry to enjoy their fascinating custom. The rascals who are ‘Pooling” the ne groes of the South are distributing love ly chromos giving a rosy picture of form life in Kansas; with highly colored oxen and homes and chickens, and an nnusnal green to the trees. The rarest and gayest flowers are blooming around a tidy cottage with at least three coats of paint, and within is a happy, sleek and delighted colored family. A piano is seen through a front window, and in a rocking chair on the veranda sits a well dressed “aunty” as contended as plenty and nothing to do can make her. Bnt all is not gold that glitters. On Thursday a religious fanatic of Pocassett, Massachncetts,, who is also an United States mail carrier, in a freak of religions frenzy kflledhis lit tle five-year-old daughter. He is a second Adventist, and had become greatly excited on religion daring Die last few weeks, and said that, he was called upon to sacrifice the child to the Lord. He stabbed her to death with a butcher knife. He said that his wife s-iid it was all right. He is insane only on this one subject.—Dew York Herald. The machinery in the factory at At lanta has been sold to the Bibb county manufacturing company, and is being re moved to Macon. New Advertisements. ACCLIMATED FRUIT TREES, Of the Varieties Best Adap ted to this Section. ."Why pay more for Frnit Trees not so well adapted to this' section, as those grown at the' HOUSTON COUNTY, S. H. RUMPH, Proprietor. Besponsible agents are now in the orders f field soliciting livery. 1 for next foil de- All Trees Warranted as Rep resented. S. H. RUMPH, Marshallville, Ga. Administrator’s Sale. By virtue of an order from the Hon orable Coart of Ordinary of Houston county will be sold before the Coart House door in the town oi Perry on the 1st Tuesday in June next, during the legal hours of sale, the following prop erty, to-wit: That town lot in the town of Perry known as the King lot, fronting on the public square, adjoining Paul’s brick store; also the dwelling house and lot on Main Street now occupied by Dr. M. S. Jobson as an office. Sold as the property of the estate of Miss Emma King. Terms Cash. W. D. KING, Administrator. April 28th, 1879—4w. MILLINERY COODS AT C OST I MOST ELEGANT STOCK EVER BROUGHT TO All the Latest Styles OF HATS, LACES AND RIBBONS, WHICH I AM BEDDING Entirely for Cash at Cost. MBS. J.N. TUTTLE, No. 5 Cook’s Range, Perry, Ga. April 17—lm. Provisions and Plantation Supplies OKT TIME! COLEMAN & NEWSOM, GBOCEBS AND PBOVIBIOX DRAU5E8 MACON, GEORGIA. XX7IDD OPEN on or abont the FIRST OF JUDY VV nett the Warehouse formerly occupied by Anderson A Troutman, on Poplar Street. Our stock of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS Win be kept fully up and complete, and trill be Furnished to our Planting Friends on reasonable terms for CASH or ON TIME. Con. signments of cotton respectfully solicited, Mr, GEO. W. WEIGHT, weU and favorably known In Houston and Crawfort counties, will re- main with ns in'the capacity of cotton weigher. Mr. Nick Marshbnzne, Jr., will also be found at his old post in our Btore. April 10, 6m, SMOKE THE ONLY GENUINE PRISE OF DURHAM A Pore Tobacco, not flavored "with, poisonona drugs. Manufactured by Z. I. LYOtf L CO., Durham, N. C, BECKWITH’S j^NTI-DYSPEPTIC PILL These pills wfU Prevent and Cure Dyspepsia— l ”- “ — — Bj-- - family They are an unrivalled Dinner PiU, mild aperient, ' medicine.— and admirably adapted as They are used by the most cultivated'people in our country, and are extensively used by physicians in their practice. Sold by druggists generally. Send for circular. E. B. BECKWITH, Sole Mann- facturer, Petersburg, Va. Not send 25 coats a sheet of sol dered PATCH PLATE, you can mend all your MACKEY MF’G CO. Charleston, S. C. PORTABLE THRESHING ENGINTES. For Farm, Plantation and Mill Ma chinery of all kinds. Iron and Brass Castings. 49*Send for Catalogue and Special low prices. SCHOFIELD’S IRON WORKS, Macon, Ga. AG ENTS."RE AG “THIS nd expense*, or allows large commission, iosell our ew and wooderfol invention*. Wemeonukatvetcv. ample free. AddrMaSsEaa.x ACo^Marahall. Mies. (617 A Day to agenta canvassing for the Fireside C Visitor. Terms and outfit free, Address P. O.’YICKERY, Angus's, Maine. (t*ryry a Month and expenses guaranteed to ip I I Agents. Outfit free. Shaw * Co., Au gusta, Maikx. Executors’ Sale. By virtne of an order from the Court of Ordina ry of Houston county, wHi bo sold before, the Court House door in the town of Perry, during the legal hours of salo on the first Tuesday in Juns next lots of land Nos. 58, 59 west half of lot No. SS and part of lot No. 5T—all in the 12th district of Houston county. Sold as the property of the es tate of Msdison Harsh-1, deceased, for the payment of debts and distribution among the heirs. Terms of sale cash. I-B. BASON, C.J. MARSH ATT, April 33d 1879. Executors. MACON, CA. inrcCrxBS aot skiIxbs in Hardware, Iron and.Steel, Implements, Carriage MaterW*, tc. Agents for Massey^ Excelsior Agricultural _ Paints, OBs, etc. -ageui. .ox - — „ .- Cotton Gin, DiBaton’s Circular Saws and Fair banks’ Standard Scales. Apl 10,—lyr. a D. ANDERSON. J. H. ANDERSON. C. D. ANDERSON & SON, WAREHOUSE AND Commission Merchants, FOURTH STREET, MACON, CA. (HOUSE LATELY OCCUPIED BY B. L. WILLINGHAM & SON.) LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON COTTON IN STORE. BAGama and ties furnished at tee - VERY LOWEST MARKET RATES. Wagon Yard and Sleeping Quarters Free to Customers. INSURE YOUR PROPERTY IN THE GEORGIA H0MEINSURANCEC0. Of 0011111113118. TOTAL ASSETS. - - - 8544,72105. This company commands the highest confidence of prudent business men on account of the safo in vestment of its assets,-and the prompt payment of all losses. ~- Rates as Low as any Strictly Eirst-Class Company. J. RHODES BROWNE, LAMBERT SPENCER, President. Secetary. Applications Tor insurance should be made to the undersigned, irho is fully commifsioncd -as Agent for the GEORGIA HOME, • EDWIN MARTIN, Agent, Perry, Houston County, Georgia. 1879. 1879. OUR “The Best ! MOTTO: Cheapest.” IS THE AND NEW SPRING STOCK. EVERYTHING YOU WANT, From a pin to a hundred bolts of Domestics, ,to 10.000 oounds of Meat. WE HAVE NOW THE Most Complete and Best Assorted Stock Ever Brought to Perry. Dress Goods, Trimmings, Notions, Domestics, Clothing, Hats, Boots, Shoes, HARD WARE, Cutlery, Crockery, Glassware, Groceries, Provisions, Paints, Lime, Etc. Low Profits, Fair Dealing. NO BAITS! NO HUMBUGS! TRY US AND BE CONVINCED. DAY & GORDON, Perry, Ga April 17—iw. MDM8.8.0. ft ANNE KILLED. NEW MILLINERY GOODS ■ We have opened and new hay* oa tihnsn-. and sale the first installment of our SPRING STOCK MILLINERY GOODS, direct from New York, which for beXatv toe .L, .To onr friends and patrons who so sustained us the last season, we rettro our m*!& thanks, and solicit a continuance of their nS.? age.—determined, as we are, to' merit if ^ c J BEST EFFORTS TO PLEASE* Call and see our goods. We love to *how ttun. April 17—2w. MDMB S - I, - &ANMEK ™- T. T. MARTIN, MASUBACTUBES AND DEAIXB IN Tm t ©eppes** atti Sheet Iron). Wap©. PERRY, - GEORGIA H as now ck hand s new and computi Stock of TIN WARE OF ALL KINDS. W HICH HE HILL SELL CHEAPER THUS era before offered In Ferry. At Wholesale, Maeon Prices «9i< to '' ’Duplicated. . SS~ Hoofing,. Guttering, etc., dene to order lm the most approved style. AplSlyr- ?§«i mmEii scoysg. ' TWENTY ROOMS. Just opened on Second Street, second door frwst Poplar* next to W. W. Collins' Carriage Repository* MACON, GEORGIA. Haring been compelled to give up the Kiffosal Hotel, I have located as above, and am prepared to furnish first-class board., by the day, week or month at reasonable rates. Shall be glad to we any of my old friends and patrons. Vary rospectfnlly, E. C. CORBETT. F a.jobson, . AbtisaH. Perry, Georgia. Sewing Machines, Jewelry, Guns, laxkr, sad >'• erythtogin his^Kne repaired and fitted «p la the All work not caBed for in ten days after Mag finished wffl be sold to pay charges. 49-All work done promptly and at the lowca rices for cash, O. ANDERSON, « Attobskx at Law, Hawkins-mb, Ga. 3- Will practice in the courts of Pulaski, XeM- ten and adjoining counties. j Newspaper Advertising Bureau, 10 Spruce St., Ji.Y. Is Called to the New and Attractive SPR.I1T& GOODS NOW BEING RECEIVED AND EXHIBITED AT COOPER CATERS. W E CORDTAT.l.Y INVll'B all to call and examine our stock, which we think more complete than ever, consisting of DRESS GOODSi PRINTS, STRIPED CH1.CKED CORDS, PIQUES, PERCALES, MUSLINS, LAWNS, LINENS, ELEA.CHINOS, ■ COTTONADES, EEGINGS, INSERTIONS, FANCY 1LES, BOWS. LACE AND KID GLOVES, LADIES, MISSES AND GENTS' HOSE, IANS, SILK PARASOLS, HANDKERCHIEFS, ETC., ETC. WITH a multiplicity of other goods too numerous to mention. OUB STOCK OF ’ Gents’ Felt and Straw Hats, Ladies’ and Misses’ Trimmed Hats, 17ITH iPHIiUNE OF SHOES, HARD V/AEE, CROCKERY, AND PROVISIONS make oar establishment a rendezvous for ever thing die most fastidious could wish TO EAT, DRINK, OR WEAR. Give ns a call, and every attention will be given, and goods guaranteed »« represented. April3—tf COOPER rib CATER. sss Is a perfect Blood Pumtosb, and is fl»t only purely Vegetabls remedy known to sci ence, that has made radical and Pbocaxzst Cubes of S-mnus and Scbopula in all their It thoroughly remove, mercury bam ik* system ; if relieves the agonies of mercurial rheumatism, and speedily cures all skin <K»- For Sale by C. B. Munr, Porry, Ga., •»* druggists. WATERS’ OROifs^TRAL ORGANS WITH All WITHOUT THE CHIME OF NEILL Tone ever made.They have the Celebrated . Orchestral Stop* vihieh. is a fine imitation of (hi Human Voice, & 21** octaves of Bells toned, inperfeet harmony tn A ttoreeds,prodoetii* e» effect tM magical and elecrrifyimr. WATERS' CbABIO? A,_OK- HHESTHAL BEI.L, ,KH,CKNTKN>!TAI. ORGANS. » Vnlune French Cneee, com- bine Parlty.f V.iclne tnth greet velnmejt tone; *ultnhle for PAELOE orCHUHCHj mansbip and Durability Unsurpawed. W ar ranted SIX YEAHS. Extremely LOW/"’ Cash or Installments. A liberal dlaeeaat te Teacher,, MiniVen, Churehet, School,, Udga, «• AGENTS WANTED. Illustrated CotaJecnes * T ATEHs" J, dL t SONS?" tellers, 40 East 14th Street. The most extensive Manufacturers of BiDterf Tables in existence. ntJ.ftBnn»icl&MeCi CHICAGO, CINCINNATI, ST. LOUIS AXD 784 Broadway, Newest ami most ckgsnt teykt af BILLIARD at lowest prices. Elegant Parlor, Dfoing, Library and B0- tiard Table* combined, sue 3 X ®» beds, perfect cushions, complete with and cues, 850. * Addles* whichever home is nearest yourctr. the J.M.Biuafiwi* **•*•<* INDISTINCT I jL-b—, _ mm